Veteran activist Mike Ferner hurled animal blood at the U.S. UN Mission in New York. The June 30 protest condemned U.S.

Kristen Miller, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at KU’s Biodiversity Institute, analyzed the Texan fossils to ...

Stone Age people used slow-cooking techniques to extract animal teeth for jewelry, revealing a careful approach to crafting ...

Listing pangolins under the Endangered Species Act is unlikely to slow the animals’ population decline, some experts say.

Inside specialized tanks at the facility, racks full of living cells, sperm, and eggs from more than 1,300 different species ...

Byline: Kaitlyn Gomez Imagine if scientists could reach back through time and recover the genetic blueprints of species that vanished thousands of years ago, then use those ancient instructions to ...

Boaters off the coast of California got the chance to see the biggest animal on Earth and the group is calling it a “once in ...

Here are five of Earth’s most terrifying extinct animals that ruled long before humans walked the Earth. Sign In. ... Titanoboa cerrejonensis was one of the largest snakes ever to slither across ...

The massive Megalodon had a staggering 100,000 kilocalories-per-day nutritional demand—which it didn't always fill as expected.

No animal, alive or extinct, is as huge as the size of the blue whale. Reaching nearly 100 feet in length and weighing over 400,000 pounds, it holds the record for the largest animal to ever live.

Long before humans walked the Earth, huge prehistoric animals roamed the planet until evolution eventually led to the emergence of new species. Arthropleura, the largest arthropod of the ...

The Chinese paddlefish, one of world's largest fish, has gone extinct. Native to China’s Yangtze River, these fish grew 23 feet in length, but haven’t been spotted since 2003.